Example sentences of "[noun sg] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 2 | They often had Fudgana and they were often , he hoped , violently sick in the car about half an hour later . |
| 3 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 4 | Bait will be a piece of crust about half the size of a matchbox , torn from a new loaf . |
| 5 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 6 | According to our experience the pancreatic blood flow in caerulein induced pancreatitis is significantly reduced already after two hours of caerulein infusion and then this reduction progresses to reach after five hours of infusion about half of the normal flow . |
| 7 | ‘ You regained consciousness about half an hour after I started talking to you . |
| 8 | There was somebody working here called er Julian , he was fucking coming , coming out the pub about half past twelve , coming back in about six o'clock and then working on three |
| 9 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 10 | On paper the French language , spoken as a native tongue by a quarter of Canada 's population , a community about half the size of Canada 's native anglophones , and buttressed by the official bilingualism of the federation , the international backing of French culture and upwards of 130,000 students in francophone universities ( 1988 ) , seems safe enough . |
| 11 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 12 | I should have known better but I got a booking about half past nine in the evening . |
| 13 | We should note that over the next decade about half the children aged from 7–11 years will not have adequate conditions to attend primary school normally in terms of the law on the National System of Education and that many other older children will be likewise unable to attend school . |
| 14 | ‘ My wife and I have lived in Fenny Drayton for a number of years , it is a small village on the Leics/Warks border about half a mile from the main A5 trunk road . |
| 15 | Our Scott woke up one Saturday night about half past about eleven o'clock it was screaming , I said what 's the matter , , I thought I , but he do n't never ever cry really did . |
| 16 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 17 | Well the players arrived here at Prenton Park about half an hour ago … given a warm welcome by the Town fans . |
| 18 | Well , you see you finish in the morning about half past , half past twelve we used to , cos no sooner you get your dinner and had a drink , you had to be back again two o'clock or half past two to start on 'em again , you see , |
| 19 | And you leave here at twenty to eight at night a an and you arrive at , you arrive in Ayr in the morning about half past seven . |
| 20 | It has been found , however , that most people only use about half their breathing potential which means the brain is only receiving about half its quota of oxygen . |
| 21 | The Blue Guide lists almost 20 museums , churches and galleries within a circular area about half a mile across . |
| 22 | To avoid queues at the entrance , Disney will normally let guests into the Main Street area about half an hour before opening . |
| 23 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 24 | I give her supper about half past five and then she goes to bed . |
| 25 | A rectangular placenta and a baby about half an inch long with a heart but no face are implanted with the aid of forceps and speculum . |
| 26 | I saw her daughter about half past seven taking that yappy thing out |
| 27 | This hotel is set on a beautiful bay about half a mile from Diamante . |
| 28 | Then I 'd help her help her cook about half past eleven |
| 29 | He went to sleep about half eleven . |
| 30 | They play around for a bit , and he goes to bed about half past six , and the little girl between seven and half past — and then I can sit down ! |